It’s Patriots’ Day, and another bombing has taken place — this time in Boston.
White supremacists and militia have long rallied around Patriots’ Day, the anniversary of the first battles of the American Revolution in 1775. On that date in 1993, a fire killed more than 80 Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas.
“It’s remained a call for them in the 21st century — the anniversary of Waco is still fresh on their minds,” said Leonard Zeskind, author of Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream.
Exactly one year after Waco, white supremacists blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 — in part because of their anger at what happened in Waco.
In Massachusetts, Patriots’ Day is celebrated on the third Monday in April — the same date of the Boston Marathon.
Bombs exploded Monday at the marathon finish line, and the FBI has called what happened a terrorist attack.
Zeskind said any talk of who might be responsible for this attack is rank speculation.
He pointed to the initial declaration that the Aryan Brotherhood might have played a role in last month’s killings of a Texas district attorney and his wife. That investigation is continuing.
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